It may solely have been her.
Marta received the inaugural FIFA award for the perfect purpose in girls’s soccer — named after the Brazil nice.
The 38-year-old was given the Marta Award at FIFA’s “The Greatest” awards on Tuesday for her purpose for Brazil in a world pleasant towards Jamaica in June.
Previous to this yr, the Puskas award lined all of soccer but it surely was determined to award it to the perfect purpose within the males’s recreation — received this yr by Manchester United ahead Alejandro Garnacho — and create the brand new Marta Award for the ladies’s recreation.
“To compete towards so many nice gamers — we had some improbable objectives,” she mentioned. “It has been an exquisite season, too. However I am even happier to obtain an award that bears my title; that is undoubtedly the best honor.”
Marta is broadly considered the best feminine soccer participant of all time and had received the award for the ladies’s participant of the yr on a file six events.
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She scored a file 119 objectives for Brazil in 185 appearances for her nation, spanning six World Cups and 6 Olympics, earlier than retiring from worldwide soccer after the Paris Video games — the place Brazil misplaced to the USA within the ultimate.
Marta received the primary NWSL title of her profession final month when Orlando Satisfaction beat Washington Spirit 1-0 within the ultimate. She had scored within the semifinal.
Marta was requested the day earlier than the title match if she thought it was potential she may give the award to herself.
“You guys must resolve, as a result of who votes for the perfect purpose within the yr? It is you. It is the folks within the public. So it needs to be actually fascinating, like Marta’s Award goes to Marta!” she mentioned with fun.
The Marta Award was voted for by followers and a panel of FIFA legends.
Reporting by The Related Press.
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